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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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Would you like to buy a unicorn?

The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • AIDS clinical trial information service advertisement with the letters 'Call 1-800-Trials A' across the page. Colour lithograph.
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